158 CATALOGUE OF THE PICTURES AT HARDWICK HALL. 



above, to the dexter and sinister, two shields, both with the 

 following arms : Talbot gules, a lion rampant within a bordure 

 (not engrailed) or, impaling Hardwick. 



In the Minstrel Gallery are eleven similar frames with work, 

 on one of which are the arms of Shrcwsburw azure, a lion 

 rampant within a bordure or. There are nine framed pieces 

 of work (one large and eight small) in the gallery not yet hung, 

 and three more at the top of the grand staircase. But I must not 

 touch further on this subject, which will, I hope, be fully dealt 

 with by an abler hand than mine. 



Note. — The monogram " G.G.E.," on the screens in the Hall, so often 

 referred to, is composed of a central E. between two G.s, that on the left being 

 reversed as on the famous monogram of Charles II. which has two C.s 

 similarly arranged. The E. is, of course, for Elizabeth Hardwick, Countess of 

 Shrewsbury, and the two G.s for the 4th husband, George, sixth Earl of 

 Shiewsbury, for it seems hardly probable that one of them would be intended 

 for his first wife, Gertrude Manners, eldest daughter of Thomas, first Earl of 

 Rutland. 



